Python: How exactly can you take a string, split it, reverse it and join it back together again?

Not fitting 100% to this particular question but if you want to split from the back you can do it like this:

theStringInQuestion[::-1].split('/', 1)[1][::-1]

This code splits once at symbol '/' from behind.

I was asked to do so without using any inbuilt function. So I wrote three functions for these tasks. Here is the code-

def string_to_list(string):
'''function takes actual string and put each word of string in a list'''
list_ = []
x = 0 #Here x tracks the starting of word while y look after the end of word.
for y in range(len(string)):
    if string[y]==" ":
        list_.append(string[x:y])
        x = y+1
    elif y==len(string)-1:
        list_.append(string[x:y+1])
return list_

def list_to_reverse(list_):
'''Function takes the list of words and reverses that list'''
reversed_list = []
for element in list_[::-1]:
    reversed_list.append(element)
return reversed_list

def list_to_string(list_):
'''This function takes the list and put all the elements of the list to a string with 
space as a separator'''
final_string = str()
for element in list_:
    final_string += str(element) + " "
return final_string

#Output
text = "I love India"
list_ = string_to_list(text)
reverse_list = list_to_reverse(list_)
final_string = list_to_string(reverse_list)
print("Input is - {}; Output is - {}".format(text, final_string))
#op= Input is - I love India; Output is - India love I 

Please remember, This is one of a simpler solution. This can be optimized so try that. Thank you!